Seattle's public toilet history

March 2, 2015

PAUL JOSEPH BROWN/Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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When Seattle installed five expensive, high-tech, self-cleaning public toilets in 2004, it was an event. Journalists recorded the first flush at a toilet in Pioneer Square, and hopes were high that the bathrooms would give tourists and transients a clean place to go when nature called.

PAUL JOSEPH BROWN/Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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When Seattle installed five expensive, high-tech, self-cleaning public toilets in 2004, it was an event. Journalists recorded the first flush at a toilet in Pioneer Square, and hopes were high that the bathrooms would give tourists and transients a clean place to go when nature called.